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Many of the Irish in power of course do not want to acknowledge that.

The Irish Times analyst is also charmed that 72 per cent wish to come back,

Isn't that splendid altogether, that the unfortunate savages who leave still love their native shore?

Here's the money statistic.

"A total of 93 per cent who had jobs before they left Ireland are now employed in their new destinations. Asked if their new job was better than the one they had left behind, 75 per cent said better, 10 per cent said not as good and 14 per cent about the same."

In other words, Irish jobs are often the bottom of the barrel type jobs and moving abroad becomes a no-brainer even if you are employed.
That points to a massive political failure.

It is clearly an inconvenient truth for the Times that so many , four in ten, leave involuntarily. Instead they focus on the utterly misleading statistic that six in ten leave happily.

Either way you look at it it is a stunning indictment of failed economic policies that so many leave for whatever reason, like they did in the 20s, 50s 80s and now again.